Your estimation of what constitutes “objective reality” is in fact the opinion that you’re being asked about.

Kinda feels like civilization is winding down.

Nebula is a decent way to be bad at youtube. They don’t have too many people on it at the moment, but there are some decent ones. And at least they get a cut.

He wasn’t reelected when his approval rating was low. He was reelected four years later, after Biden’s approval rating fell.

That is an incredibly important distinction. People have terrible memories (on both sides of the aisle, as this thread demonstrates), but they do feel the present. This is the present.

This doesn’t reflect what we saw during his first administration. At all.

Honestly I’ve been too agoraphobic since COVID to even really put in the effort. I have Bumble sitting on my phone with no profile filled out and that’s as far as it’s gotten.

But like, even the first panel sounds like kind of a boost. 😅

I’m curious how this approach is meant to achieve solidarity. Can you elaborate on your thinking?

It matters because conservatives having buyer’s remorse is a good thing. The same thing happened last time he was elected. He saw his support drop and the support for the Republican party drop like a stone. We gained 41 seats in the House at the midterm.

We need his approval rating to be low so that we can flip the house and Senate and have a better chance of taking the presidency in 2028. We might even be able to achieve impeachment in two years if it drops low enough.

Approval rating also corresponds to compliance with executive orders and with Republican cooperation as well as Democratic cooperation at the state level and in the legislative branch. They still want to get reelected, and if the party decides he’s a danger to them they will again distance themselves.

Does it mean our problems evaporate overnight? No. But it’s a requirement for improvement, so it’s good to see.

You know, like, targeting leftist solidarity and looking for anywhere and everywhere to drive wedges. Wedge-like.

Weird that you assume nobody who supports FOSS is helpful to any other leftist causes.

Kinda wedge-like.

I still can’t tell if this is sarcasm.

What is this? Some kinda Oceans 31 Squad?

He already looks substantially worse than he did a week ago. I always forget how much that job ages people. Even Obama came out grey. He really doesn’t look well.

Not to say this necessarily isn’t the case, but are your drivers all up to date? I don’t know how often I’ve heard people complain about shitty performance or weird artifacts in a game only to hear that the player hasn’t updated their graphics card drivers in 8 months.

This is a sealion.

Sorting with either the month or the day ahead of the year results in more immediately relevant identifiable information being displayed first. The year doesn’t change very often, so it’s not something you necessarily need to scan past for every entry. The hour changes so frequently as to be irrelevant in many cases. Both the month and the day represent a more useful range of time that you might want to see immediately.

Personally, I find the month first to be more practical because it tells you how relatively recent something is on a scale that actually lasts a while. Going day first means if you’ve got files sorted this way you’re going to have days of the month listed more prominently than months themselves, so the first of January through the first of December will all be closer together then the first and second of January in your list. Impractical.

Year first makes sense if you’re keeping a list around for multiple years, but the application there is less useful in the short term. It’s probably simpler to just have individual folders for years and then also tack it on after days to make sure it’s not missing.

Also, like, this format is how physical calendars work assuming you don’t have a whole stack of them sitting in front of you.

No to any consilodation. Trying to force people to a particular instance is about the most anti-fediverse move there is. If that’s what you want, go make a subreddit.

I definitely noticed a lot of these kinds of accounts leading up to the election and have noticed that they all seem to have evaporated once the job was done. It’s a shame more instances weren’t able to do something to be more effective about containing and shutting them down before it was too late.

One thing I’ve noticed about Lemmy, which I find incredibly naive, is that many of the people who use it seem to think it’s completely irrelevant. Like, I’ve seen people repeatedly saying that Lemmy or a particular Lemmy instance is just some tiny corner of the internet and let’s not pretend it has any significant impact. That, to me, reminds me of the way people used to talk about the internet, and later the way people used to talk about reddit.

Lemmy doesn’t have to be big to be influential. It’s a collection of extremely online and often very politically vocal people. Conversations that start here have a potential to carry further. In many ways it reminds me of the early days of reddit, which had a much greater influence than was really understood at the time as well.

This may not be a huge platform, but that may actually make it a better target for getting a message out, because the signal to noise ratio is better. You actually have a chance to get some eyeballs on your topic of conversation and have some folks run with it. That then spreads out to the rest of the internet and to flesh-and-blood communications. It doesn’t just stay isolated and contained here.

Lemmy is part of the world, a part that we’re all engaging with. Let’s not pretend it’s insignificant to our own detriment.

Is it just an unfiltered series of posts? Personally a bit more sex-focused than I’m really looking for in my social media, but maybe if there were categories or something?

Have you tried Discord? I’ve met a ton of people on Discord servers or in games that have a focus on Discord, and we talk at length on a regular basis, both in text and in voice. Hell, sometimes I’ll sit in a voice chat with them and talk about nothing in particular all day or literally just sleep in digital proximity.

Instagram or any social media with DMs is probably shit for chat because it’s literally not intended as a chat client. That’s a function that’s tacked on as an afterthought and usually pretty poorly.

Something like Discord, Element, or IRC is probably a way better bet. It’s the same as trying to hold a conversation over email or Livejournal in the late 90s or early 00s rather than using an AIM, ICQ, YIM, or MSN client. Or like, IRC or even Palace or just some small web-based Java chat. You’re just kind of doing it wrong, I think.